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Why did Old English lose both thorn and eth?
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Why do English transliterations of Arabic names have so many Qs in them?
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Is English tonal for some words, like "permit"?
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Is Sanskrit really the mother of all languages?
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In python, why does 0xbin() return False?
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Were ancient languages as sophisticated as modern languages?
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The first Turing machine
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Is it unusual that English uses possessive for past tense?
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What does a solid, 1 mile diameter subterranean glass sphere look like?
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Days of the week in Yiddish -- why so similar to Germanic?
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How to explain a character's ability to communicate while traveling across a land of extremely fractured dialects?
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Human vs apes: What advantages do humans have over apes?
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Why isn't "I've" a proper response?
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Signed and unsigned numbers
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Since when did Indo-European languages start associating noun genders with male/female sexes?
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How did שְׁלֹמֹה (shlomo) become Solomon?
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Is future tense in English really a myth?
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Are there modern languages without standardized spelling? If not, why?
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What does machine code actually look like while being run?
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Is the Cyrillic letter 'Z' the same as the number 3
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Are language and thought the same?
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Why are J, U, W considered part of the basic Latin Alphabet?
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Is Cola "probably the best-known" Latin word in the world? If not, which might it be?
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"Oh no!" in Latin
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Do any languages use words like particles to represent commas, periods, hyphens, quotes, parentheses, etc.?
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Why does Latin have five different noun declensions?
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Why vowels sound different from each other
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Why do even completely illiterate persons, who speak their national language poorly, speak their local dialect with perfection?
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Why do most languages have a different form for singular vs plural nouns?
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Why do the Romance languages use definite articles, when Latin doesn't?
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